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What does RBI want?
This year, through speeches and actions, the message from RBI has been bold - all financial entities – big and small – have to toe the line.
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Sumita Kale
Stress points in India’s FI mission
When it comes to the current status of financial inclusion in India, there is much more than meets the eye in Chapter Four of RBI’s recently released…
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Sumita Kale
Signs of Stress in Financial Inclusion
Rural household finances are in the news, and not in a good way.
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Sumita Kale
Microfinance Instability Guaranteed?
The microfinance industry, a pillar of financial inclusion in India, has been under stress this past year – see latest data from MFIN and views from…
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Sumita Kale
Don't mess with the RBI!
Last Friday, the Reserve Bank of India released revised guidelines for NBFC-P2P Lending Platforms. This action was in a way overdue. The issue of…
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Sumita Kale
NPCI feels the heat
With the UPI transaction volume soaring to record highs of 13.44 billion in March, up from 8.7 billion last year, the pressure is on the NPCI to de-risk…
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Sumita Kale
RBI finds NPCI incomparable
2022 was the year Indians took to retail digital payments like never before.
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Sumita Kale
RBI finally blesses fintech!
The much-awaited guidelines allowing Default Loss Guarantee in digital lending came through from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) last week.
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Sumita Kale
New beginnings!
The year comes to an end with a change of guard at the Reserve Bank of India as Governor Sanjay Malhotra takes over from Shaktikanta Das who helmed RBI…
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Sumita Kale
Who pays for inclusion?
The recently released Economic Survey 2023-24 gives an excellent roundup of the progress that India has made in achieving financial inclusion targets…
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Sumita Kale
It took us 10 years!
India’s financial inclusion mission has a fresh breath of life as a long-standing fundamental issue is finally being addressed - that is, the viability…
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Sumita Kale
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India Shining, Yes! But...
The year ahead is projected as one of global slowdown and India is emerging, not just an outlier, but the fastest growing economy.
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Sumita Kale
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